[admiral_wolf]

OK I've been an idiot.  I had the mp3 files for the FreeSpace 1 Ancient monologues on my PC, but during a clearout, I accidently removed them from the Hard Drive.  Without being able to recall where I found them, I was wondering if anyone here had them or knew where to find them.

[Jeff Vader]

1. Since you asked yourself... idiot. Sorry. 

2. You mean the actual dialogue, or just a taping of the cutscenes so that there's the background tune as well?

[Mars]

If you're talking about the ancient monologue Theora OGGs the installer has them.

If you really are talking about MP3s, I don't know what you're talking about

[admiral_wolf]

They were recordings from the cutscenes so they had the backing music.

[Jeff Vader]

So in theory in reality you can just rerecord them yourself.

[admiral_wolf]

If I had the knowhow of how to do that, I would do it that way.

[Jeff Vader]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I would've thought that knowhow on recording audio from a video source would be required from potential admirals.

[Excalibur]

Or use the 5.12 version of Goldwave so that you can get around the 3000 command limit - you'll have to figure that out though.

Or you can use windows sound recorder...

[DarthWang]

If you can find them on youtube, go to www.vixy.net and save them as MP3s

[Colonol Dekker]

Idiot...

AND AWAY !

[Herra Tohtori]

If VirtualDub opens Theora clips, it should be trivial to extract the audio from the video into a WAV file, from which you could convert them to whichever format pleases you the most.

[admiral_wolf]

If you can find them on youtube, go to www.vixy.net and save them as MP3s

I've used a site like that before, but I've ended up with songs that play for over half and hour at times, with only a few minutes of audio.

[Jeff Vader]

- Download and install Audacity.
- Start Audacity.
- Click the "Record" button.
- Watch the cutscene.
- Stop the recording from Audacity.
- Edit out the silences from the beginning and the end.
- Export to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.
- Rince and repeat.

[Herra Tohtori]

- Download and install Audacity.
- Start Audacity.
- Click the "Record" button.

Depending on what exactly the settings are, you might end up recording noise from empty microphone socket. Or you might get a mono recording of what you hear, as the microphone registers it. Or you might need to hook a wire from the stereo-out plug to line-in, then record from the line-in... but that doesn't always work either.

The method you suggested basically works if the sound card has a feature that allows on-the-fly- recording of what you hear (WhatUHear on Creative cards, AFAIK); many on-board audio circuits don't have this feature, but as far as I know most dedicated sound cards do have it.


At any rate, extracting the audio track from the video container file is a better way to get the sound file at your disposal, losslessly I may add - none of this recording thing, it's useful on occasion with stubborn streaming services that refuse to give you access to the file directly, but otherwise it's generally better to just aquire the data digitally rather than record the sound via analog channels.

Of course, analog recording is great for giving the finger to everything that is supposedly "copy protected", should other methods fail - even the toughest copy protection on a compact disk will shatter when you put it into a CD player and wire a cable from the headphone outlet to line-in, put the disk rolling and hit record... At least, as long as the music industry doesn't start demanding for speakers and headphones that have a copy protection system similar to the HDCP on displays... But I digress, yet again.

[Jeff Vader]

 

K... I've done it without really thinking about the process (other than selecting Stereo Mix from the main interface of Audacity, instead of, for example, Microphone). With a Realtek/Intel/somethingoranother integrated chip.

[Al Tarket]

"with a realtek somethingoranother"...  . lobo hard at work i see 

"ok call me an idiot" as topic title suggests, well i not one for starting a war however their are times where you get invited and on such an occasion.

mr, you my sir are idiot. hehehe

[Herra Tohtori]

K... I've done it without really thinking about the process (other than selecting Stereo Mix from the main interface of Audacity, instead of, for example, Microphone). With a Realtek somethingoranother integrated chip.

Hmm...

Perhaps Audacity is just audacious enough to be able to do it, in which case I would be interested in learning at which stage exactly it captures the sound data, and from which device... I remember trying other recording programs (sndrec32, Creative Wave Studio) and was unsuccessful with Realtek AC97 integrated audio chip.

[Jeff Vader]

"with a realtek somethingoranother"...  . lobo hard at work i see 

Perhaps Audacity is just audacious enough to be able to do it, in which case I would be interested in learning at which stage exactly it captures the sound data, and from which device... I remember trying other recording programs (sndrec32, Creative Wave Studio) and was unsuccessful with Realtek AC97 integrated audio chip.

I too was most unsuccesful with other programs. But Audacity just seems to work.

And since today has been a slow tech support day, I decided to be arsed enough to record (yes, record. Burn you hi-fi freaks!) the audio from the Ancient cutscenes. Enjoy.

[admiral_wolf]

Mr Lobo, consider yourself my new Vice Admiral, move over Ensign Polpolion!

[Jeff Vader]

K.